Archive for the ‘Trendspotting’ Category

8 Pop Culture Trends We Hated in 2008

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

2008 Year End Collage

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Robert of Day 26’s Fiancee “June Bug” Writes Tell-All Book

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Robert Curry & June "June Bug" Pettiford

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Lyrics To Go: The Fugees

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The Fugees The Score album cover

Who would’ve thought one of the greatest, and probably most poignant, lines EVER would come from Pras. (more…)

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Quote Me: Diddy Jumps on Auto Tune Bandwagon

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Diddy

“It’s electro Hip-Hop soul. T-Pain gave me permission to use the vocoder, the Auto-Tune, and (more…)

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Fabolous & Ne-Yo Plan Joint Album

Friday, October 10th, 2008

FabolousFabolous dropped a bomb on a recent YouTube video: “We got a Best of Both Worlds with Ne-Yo comin…Uhhh!”

My sentiments exactly. “Make Me Better” was cool, but do we really need 15-20 of those? Although they haven’t started recording yet, Fab says that the project is definitely in the planning stages.

“Ne-Yo and I keep talking about it and I think we definitely have chemistry when it comes to making records, so I thought it was only right,” (more…)

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The Lexicon: The Highly Average Male R&B Singer

Monday, September 29th, 2008

KeAnthony, Noel Gourdin, & Sterling Simms

In The Lexicon, we look at trends and happenings in the world of music and assign nifty catchprases to them. First up, Highly Average. (more…)

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Pepa Talks Molestation & Past Loves in New Book

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Pepa of Salt 'N Pepa's "Let's Talk About Pep" bookSuperhead, Nas’ baby mama, Faith Evans, Wendy Williams, Miss Jones, Kim Osorio. The list of hip-hop memoirs/tell-alls just keeps growing and growing…

In the latest, Let’s Talk About Pep, Pepa of Salt ‘N Pepa reveals details about being molested as a child and admits her tendency for picking the wrong men. One of them was Prince Markie D of the Fat Boys (that’s the light-skinned one), but Pep says it’s all good between them now. (more…)

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